<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looks like the remaining cables failed last night or this morning.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/arecibo-radio-telescopes-massive-instrument-platform-has-collapsed/" class="">https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/arecibo-radio-telescopes-massive-instrument-platform-has-collapsed/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Photos:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/arecibo-telescope-collapses-ending-57-year-run" class="">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/arecibo-telescope-collapses-ending-57-year-run</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-r</div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 20, 2020, at 7:20 PM, Terry N4TLF <<a href="mailto:n4tlf@wb4jfi.com" class="">n4tlf@wb4jfi.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Yes, I saw this yesterday. Another great scientific loss. There is a larger one in China..... but it's in China.<br class="">Terry, N4TLF<br class=""><br class="">-----Original Message----- From: Rob Seastrom<br class="">Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 6:44 PM<br class="">To: Tacos<br class="">Subject: looks like Arecibo is down for the count<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Somehow I missed that a second cable had snapped earlier this month, following up on the hurricane damage and first snapped cable in August.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/legendary-arecibo-telescope-will-close-forever-and-scientists-are-reeling/" class="">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/legendary-arecibo-telescope-will-close-forever-and-scientists-are-reeling/</a><br class=""><br class="">-r<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tacos mailing list<br class="">Tacos@amrad.org<br class="">https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos <br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tacos mailing list<br class="">Tacos@amrad.org<br class="">https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>